Apple's TheBanker to get 2-week theatrical release
), who after becoming millionaires through Los Angeles real estate dealings banded together to buy banks in Texas, a perilous pursuit in the Jim Crow South. Using a white frontman , they bought the banks partly to be able to make loans to blacks in Texas, who were shut out of the wealth-building system because of their race.
The movie tells an important story. Cynthia Garrett’s allegations had little to do with the story onscreen but were incredibly hurtful to she and her sister to see a movie about her father that had her brother involved as a co-producer . Garrett also complained that her mother was excluded from the film, in a final scene after Garrett and Morris finish serving time for bank fraud.
I’d heard that just as Apple was not forthcoming to the point of being evasive to Deadline in the past week, the corporation took the same track with the filmmakers and financiers, only gesturing that it had finished its own investigation and, as thethere was no evidence of wrongdoing or that they knew anything about Garrett Jr’s alleged misdeeds, which he has steadfastly denied.
There was talk of releasing the film a week prior, on February 28, to make Black History Month, but that coincided with the release of Mackie’s splashy new Disney+ series launch,Apple was in a no-win situation on the movie, and clearly the corporation feared tarnishing its global brand. But this goes down as an inauspicious debut for the launch of a feature film division that acquiredin competitive bidding.
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